Random babbling leads chicks to the perfect tune
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Uploaded by newscientistvideo on May 2, 2008
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13819
Researchers are finding out that birds use a different part of their brain when they babble than they do to sing.
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I appreciates this knowledge but I DONT think it was worth torturing birds for. Useless suffering.
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Honestly, they couldnt figure this out with common sense?
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It is far more interesting that surgery is not even required to achieve the same result on certain humans.
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What the hell. they have to learn all over again. harsh much. poor birds... :(
3 years ago 3
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wow wtf was the point of that. Why would they give a bird brain surgery to find out where the part of the brain controls their communication. Scientist are assholes
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After a couple hundred years of medical research on the human body, I do believe they have already figured out which part of the brain speech and the development of speech is located.
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Good point. No animal is sentient, that's kinda what makes us human.
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LoL.
I think you should leave out 'brainless'
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Wow, the bird got retarded after you CUT PART OF ITS BRAIN OUT? Wow, amazing! I never could have guessed that!
iberollin 3 years ago 21
I don't think they needed to modify the bird's brains to figure this one out.
After several summers of birdwatching, you can hear adult cardinals teach their babies songs. It was amazing to hear the "babbling" at first and then after several days to hear the baby repeat the parent's song.
I didn't need to remove a part of a bird's brain to figure this out.
IcyKitty 3 years ago 12